Invention Timeline – Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrug, Austrian Physician; Wrote Treatises on Insanity
b. ? 1722 and d. ? 1809
Austrian physician, who wrote two treatises on insanity. He was the inventor of percussion, the practice of which was neglected until Corvisart revived it in 1808.
How like eternity doth nature seem
To life of man-that short and fitful dream
I look around me: nowhere can I trace
Lines of decay that mark our human race.
These are the murmuring waters, these the flowers
I mused o’er in my earlier, better hours.
Long years have passed since this was last my home
And I am weak, and toil-worn is my frame;
But all this vale shuts in is still the same:
‘Tis I alone am changed.
—The Constancy of Nature: R. H. Dana
Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
It pays the hearing double recompense.
—Shakespeare
422 B. C.—Hippocrates, the father of medicine, fluorished.
400 B. C.—The structure of the human body was first studied and became a branch of medicinal education under Hippocrates.
390 B. C.—He separated medicine from the priesthood.
500—Aetius, an eminent surgeon, fluorished.
1622—Lacteals of the intestines were discovered by Asellius.
